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Everyday Angels

January 22, 2015
"You can see the concentration on their faces."—Griffith Mann, curator
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The Hidden Body Speaks

January 22, 2015
"The drapery stands in as an expression of the body."—Peter Barnet, curator
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After Victory

January 22, 2015
"When I assumed the pose of Perseus, I felt a sense of power, confidence, and strength." —Emmanuel von Schack, educator and ASL user
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“It's done in a very elevated way, but there's a great deal of humor here.”—Luke Syson, curator
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Hands: Silent Yet Speaking

January 22, 2015
"I'm moved by Saint Sebastian's bound hands as symbols of linguistic oppression." —Emmanuel von Schack, educator and ASL user
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The Body as High Drama

January 22, 2015
"How much skill, time, and focus went into getting one simple moment of human gesture?"—Bill T. Jones, choreographer and director
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Lehigh University Assistant Professor Nicholas Sawicki discusses the Czech reception of synthetic Cubism in the works of Picasso, Braque, and Kramář.
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Artist Cory Archangel reflects on the harpsichord in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Artist George Condo reflects on Claude Monet's The Path through the Irises in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Artist Lisa Yuskavage reflects on Édouard Vuillard's The Green Interior in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

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Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

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This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

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With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.